Ingrid Betancourt – Even Silence Has an End – My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle | Bestsellers Shop Online

Ingrid Betancourt – Even Silence Has an End – My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle | Bestsellers Shop Online

Download free ebook! A Colombian politician of French descent, Ms. Betancourt was taken hostage in February 2002 by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a left-wing guerrilla group that sustains itself through cocaine trafficking and kidnappings. She became a valuable bargaining chip in the group’s decades-long war with the Colombian government, but, as a member of the country’s elite, she was also treated with brutality and contempt by her captors, many of them poor young peasants.

Ms. Betancourt, now 48, seems to have set out to write a straightforward chronicle of her ordeal, and describes the humiliating, mind-numbing daily routine to which she was subjected, as well as her efforts to escape and the punishment inflicted on her when she was caught again. But as the details of fear, hunger, illness, abuse, boredom, hopelessness and physical suffering accumulate over 528 pages, so too do their power and intensity.